MORE PLEASANT SURPRISES for chicks of all sizes.
by NISTER MOVABLE. Verses by Fred E. Weatherly and others, including Clifton Bingham.:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Ernest Nister, printed in Bavaria, (1893).. FIRST EDITION inscribed neatly on front endpaper Christmas 1893, 325 x 260 mm, 13 x 10 inches, red cloth backed glazed boards, pretty chromolithographs to upper cover, lower cover plain, original floral endpapers, 8 coloured plates of charming transformational pictures, divided into horizontal slats with a tab at the lower edge which is pulled to make a completely different coloured picture. 11 pages of verses with black and white vignettes. Expertly restitched, lower cover dusty and a little scratched, head and tail of spine and corners just very slightly worn, 1 small scratch to upper cover, small tear to corner of front endpaper neatly repaired, 4 plates have 1 or 2 small closed tears to the frame, all repaired, all movables working, some tabs possibly renewed, a little very light spotting to some margins. A good copy. The first plate changes from Little Jack Horner to Little Miss Muffet, the others depict sweet little children. Montanaro, Volume I, page 180. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47267
- Title
- MORE PLEASANT SURPRISES for chicks of all sizes.
- Author
- NISTER MOVABLE. Verses by Fred E. Weatherly and others, including Clifton Bingham.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Ernest Nister, printed in Bavaria, (1893).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- movable moveable transformation picture book nister chromolithographs
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